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...granted. This is particularly striking at Harvard, where tenure rates for women are embarrassingly low and our university president not-so-innocently suggests that “issues of intrinsic apptitude” are to blame. It is not “issues of intrinsic apptitude” that prevent women from gaining access to these mansions scattered all over campus. It is a carefully preserved system of relics, inherited from a long history of exclusion and oppression. I didn’t want to be responsible for making that history any longer, so I quit.I said earlier that there...
...were caught selling a burrito outside of our door at 2:15 a.m. We had somebody begging us, and we were caught by one of the license inspectors.” According to Elizabeth Y. Lint, executive officer for the CLC, the license violations could prevent Felipe’s from receiving its extended hours. “It is my opinion that it is difficult for the Commission to grant the request to extend their hours when they’re not even complying with their license regulations as they are now,” she said...
...starters, it's only one part of a program that would reform the tax code without changing the burden on the average American. It would raise some taxes only as much as it cuts others. The real target is the alternative minimum tax (AMT), designed years ago to prevent millionaires from avoiding tax, but now increasingly encroaching upon the middle class. Next year the AMT will raise the burden of 21 million taxpayers earning as little as $75,000. But to replace the $1.2 trillion that the tax would bring in over the next 10 years, something sacred...
...birds in Southeast Asia, though the World Bank's announcement last week that it will issue emergency loans to nations struggling with avian flu should help. As the World Health Organization has repeatedly stated, containing bird flu on the ground, in animals, is still the best way to prevent a flu pandemic. But paying for flu surveillance in Cambodia isn't going to calm scared American voters, or earn Bush back the political capital he lost in Hurricane Katrina...
Ever since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) concluded three years ago that the long-term use of the hormones estrogen and progestin to prevent heart disease was not worth the associated health risks, women have been frustrated and confused about what to do as they go through menopause. Part of the problem is that the WHI study was never designed to look at menopause. Participants were mostly in their 60s, when more and more women begin suffering heart attacks, and not their late 40s and early 50s, when most women eventually stop menstruating. But as data presented...